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Third-party payment for non-therapeutic or unnecessary medical procedures encourages the performance of such services, simply so the attending physician can collect a fee. | Third-party payment for non-therapeutic or unnecessary medical procedures encourages the performance of such services, simply so the attending physician can collect a fee. | ||
Third-party payment for injurious medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] in the United States keeps the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision of children higher than any other industrial nation.<ref>{{REFweb | Third-party payment for injurious medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]] keeps the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision of children higher than any other industrial nation.<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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==U.S. Government policy on circumcision== | ==U.S. Government policy on circumcision== | ||
The government policy regarding male circumcision seems to have been formulated by the military services at the time of World War I. It appears to have been based on the 1914 article of [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]], M.D., an ardent Jewish promoter of circumcision, who published an opinion-based paper in 1914 in the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' that | The government policy regarding male [[circumcision]] seems to have been formulated by the military services at the time of World War I. It appears to have been based on the 1914 article of [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]], M.D., an ardent Jewish promoter of [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]], who published an opinion-based paper in 1914 in the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' to defend ritual cirumcision that claimed health benefits of circumcision.<ref name="wolbarst1914">{{REFjournal | ||
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The unspoken and unwritten official U.S. Government policy seems to be that it is clear every male needs a circumcision, so support for free circumcision is provided without any questions being asked. This had been the policy of the military services since about 1917 when the United States intervened in the World War. When the Congress created the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965, the existing ''every male needs a circumcision'' policy was adopted. About 45 percent of births in the [[United States]] are covered by Medicaid and in most states free coverage of infant circumcision is provided. United States Medicaid is one of the largest third-party payers for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref name="adler2011>{{REFjournal | The unspoken and unwritten official U.S. Government policy seems to be that it is clear every male needs a [[circumcision]], so support for free circumcision is provided without any questions being asked. This had been the policy of the military services since about 1917 when the United States intervened in the World War. When the Congress created the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965, the existing ''every male needs a circumcision'' policy was adopted. About 45 percent of births in the [[United States]] are covered by Medicaid and in most states free coverage of infant circumcision is provided. United States Medicaid is one of the largest third-party payers for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref name="adler2011>{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Adler | |last=Adler | ||
|first=Peter W. | |first=Peter W. | ||