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==Non-availability of third-party payment==

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 the 1980s. 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 the 1980s. 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 name="skeldon2008">{{REFnews

|title=Circumcision mix-up

|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/canadacom11-18-05/

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|publisher=Canada.com

|accessdate=2019-10-26

}}</ref> <ref>{{REFdocument

|title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada

|url=https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/47498/2008_HMD_Skeldon.pdf?sequence=1

|contribution=

|last=Skeldon

|first=Sean

|publisher=University of Calgary

|format=PDF

|date=2008-03

|accessdate=2022-06-24

}}</ref>

[[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada.<ref name="jamesloewen2019">[[James Loewen]] (2019). Personal communication.</ref> Parents who wish to have a son circumcised must pay out-of-pocket for the costs of the circumcision.<ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal

[[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada.<ref name="skeldon2008"/> <ref name="jamesloewen2019">[[James Loewen]] (2019). Personal communication.</ref> Parents who wish to have a son circumcised must pay out-of-pocket for the costs of the circumcision.<ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal

|last=Rediger

|first=Chris

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 ==Non-availability of third-party payment==
-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 the 1980s. 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 the 1980s. 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 name="skeldon2008">{{REFnews
   |title=Circumcision mix-up
   |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/canadacom11-18-05/
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   |publisher=Canada.com
   |accessdate=2019-10-26
+}}</ref> <ref>{{REFdocument
+ |title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada
+ |url=https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/47498/2008_HMD_Skeldon.pdf?sequence=1
+ |contribution=
+ |last=Skeldon
+ |first=Sean
+ |publisher=University of Calgary
+ |format=PDF
+ |date=2008-03
+ |accessdate=2022-06-24
 }}</ref>
-[[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada.<ref name="jamesloewen2019">[[James Loewen]] (2019). Personal communication.</ref> Parents who wish to have a son circumcised must pay out-of-pocket for the costs of the circumcision.<ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal
+[[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada.<ref name="skeldon2008"/> <ref name="jamesloewen2019">[[James Loewen]] (2019). Personal communication.</ref> Parents who wish to have a son circumcised must pay out-of-pocket for the costs of the circumcision.<ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal
   |last=Rediger
   |first=Chris