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==Government support == === Medicaid pays for it ===
The costs are many births are borne by Medicaid. Medicaid pays for about 40 percent of the non-therapeutic circumcisions done in the United States.
While 18 states have stopped paying for it, 32 states still pay for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]. Doctors may be driven to promote circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state.
The now expired AAP 2012 Policy Statement on Circumcision states that "Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine (i.e. non-therapeutic) circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to '''warrant third-party payment''' for circumcision of male newborns. It is important that clinicians routinely inform parents of the health benefits and risks of male newborn circumcision in an unbiased and accurate manner." and "The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement."<ref>{{REFweb
|publisher=Pediatrics
|accessdate=2012-11-24
}}</ref> Many new born circumcisions are performed by Obstetriciansobstetricians. ===Indian Health Service=== The [https://www.ihs.gov/ Indian Health Service] provides non-therapeutic circumcision to native Americans, even though it is not part of the culture of native Americans. ===Tricare=== [https://www.tricare.mil/Tricare] is the government medical insurance for military dependents. Tricare covers non-therapeutic circumcision of the newborn male infant.<ref>https://www.tricare.mil/SearchResults?search=circumcision</ref>
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