Changes

At the beginning of the 21st Century, only the Manitoba Health Insurance Plan (HIP) still paid for non-therapeutic circumcision, however Manitoba HIP ended payment in 2006.<ref name="skeldon2008" /> No insurance coverage of non-therapeutic circumcision is currently available. There is a long-standing general consensus for at least a half-century that there are no medical indications for [[circumcision]] in the newborn period.<ref name="cps1975" /> <ref name="cps1996" /> A report in 2024 indicates that At the beginning of the 21st Century, only the Manitoba Health Insurance Plan (HIP reinstated [[third) still paid for non-party therapeutic circumcision, however Manitoba HIP ended payment]] for in 2006.<ref name="skeldon2008" /> No insurance coverage of non-therapeutic circumcision is currently available in the first 28 days of lifeManitoba, apparently for political reasons and as a [[Financial incentive| benefit]] for physicians.<refname="dm2024">{{REFweb |url=https://buenafeclinicdoctorsmanitoba.comca/circumcisionmanaging-your-practice/remuneration/babybilling-infantfees/surgery/neonatal-newborn/circumcision |title=Baby & Newborn Neonatal Circumcision at our Winnipeg Clinic |last=Buenafe |first=Joy |init= |author-link= |publisher=Buenafe ClinicDoctors Manitoba |date=2024-07-16 |accessdate=2024-1011-0626}}</ref>and this is also true throughout Canada.