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The Congress of the United States created the Medicaid program in 1965. Medicaid is a joint federal/state program that pays the medical expenses of low-income Americans. Medicaid pays for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision in most states, although it appears to be a violation of law to do so.<ref name="adler2011">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Adler | |||
|first=Peter W. | |||
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|author-link=Peter W. Adler | |||
|title=It is lawful to use Medicaid to pay for circumcision? | |||
|journal=Journal of Law and Medicine | |||
|date=2011 | |||
|volume=19 | |||
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|pages=335-353 | |||
|url=https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/is-it-lawful-to-use-medicaid-to-pay-for-circumcision.pdf | |||
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WKC Morgan, a Canadian medical doctor on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in a highly critcal letter pubbished by JAMA (1965), slammed the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys as it had developed in the United States.<ref>{{REFjournal | WKC Morgan, a Canadian medical doctor on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in a highly critcal letter pubbished by JAMA (1965), slammed the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys as it had developed in the United States.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||