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Canada has fourteen single-payer health insurance plans (HIPs) — one for each of the ten provinces and three territories and a 14th plan for government employees. The British Columbia HIP stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in 1984. Ontario HIP stopped payment for non-therapeutic circumcision in July 1995; Saskatchewan stopped in 1996. One by one, all other HIPs have stopped paying for non-therapeutic circumcision. In 2006, Manitoba HIP was the last to stop, but only after the wrong boy was [[circumcised]] at [http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/ St. Boniface Hospital].<ref>{{REFnews | Canada has fourteen single-payer health insurance plans (HIPs) — one for each of the ten provinces and three territories and a 14th plan for government employees. The British Columbia HIP stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in 1984. Ontario HIP stopped payment for non-therapeutic circumcision in July 1995; Saskatchewan stopped in 1996. One by one, all other HIPs have stopped paying for non-therapeutic circumcision. In 2006, Manitoba HIP was the last to stop, but only after the wrong boy was [[circumcised]] at [http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/ St. Boniface Hospital].<ref>{{REFnews | ||
|title=Circumcision mix-up | |title=Circumcision mix-up | ||
|url= | |url=https://www.cirp.org/news/2006/2006-07-18_winnipegfreepress.php | ||
|last= | |last=Skerrit | ||
|first= | |first=Jen | ||
|publisher= | |publisher= Winnipeg Free Press | ||
|accessdate= | |accessdate=2024-10-08 | ||
}}</ref> <ref name="skeldon2008">{{REFdocument | }}</ref> <ref name="skeldon2008">{{REFdocument | ||
|title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada | |title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada | ||