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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 that there are no medical indications for [[circumcision]] in the newborn period.<ref>{{REFweb
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}}</ref> Reports in 2024 indicate that the Manitoba HIP reinstated [[third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision in the first 28 days of life, apparently for political reasons.
===The incidence of circumcision varies widely by region===