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→Early twenty-first century: add information on governent support.
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}}</ref> Infant circumcision is a profit center for many American hospitals so parents are pushed to circumcise.
===Government financial support for non-therapeutic circumcision===
The United States government provides [[financial incentive]] for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] by [[third-party payment]] through numerous government health insurance programs:
* Medicaid
* Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
* Indian Health Service
* Tricare
* Government employee health insurance
* Medicare
===Incidence of circumcision===