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===Third-party payment is not 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" />
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 in Manitoba,<ref name="dm2024">{{REFweb
|url=https://doctorsmanitoba.ca/managing-your-practice/remuneration/billing-fees/surgery/neonatal-circumcision
|title=Neonatal Circumcision
|publisher=Doctors Manitoba
|date=2024-07-16
|accessdate=2024-11-26
}}</ref> and this is also true throughout Canada.<ref name="allan2024">{{REFbook
|last=Allan
|first=
|init=JA
|author-link=Jonathan A. Allan
|year=2024
|title=Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin
|url=https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Uncut
|chapter=Chapter 2: Circumcision Indecision
|pages=88-9
|location=Regina
|publisher=University of Regina Press
|ISBN= 978-1779400307
|accessdate=2024-10-06
}}</ref> Only "medically indicated" circumcisions (which are very rare) are covered.<ref name="dm2024" />
===The incidence of circumcision varies widely by region===
The incidence of non-therapeutic child circumcision Labrador and Newfoundland is reported to be close to zero while Saskatchewan had an incidence of circumcision in 2000 and 2001 of 27.6 percent. The Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons said in 2002 that was much too high and should be reduced substantially. The Registrar, Dr. Dennis Kimble, said, "they [doctors] aren't required to carry out a procedure simply because parents want it done."<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Sask. college wants circumcision rates reduced
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/medicalpost03-18-02/
|last=Driver
|first=Deana
|coauthors=
|publisher=Medical Post
|website=
|date=2002-03-19
|accessdate=2021-07-22
|quote=
}}</ref>
→Canada and circumcision in the 21st century: Relocate sub-section.
}}</ref>
===The most recent survey was done in 2006-7===
[[Foreskinned]] males are in the majority in every province and territory.
===Abusive promotion of non-therapeutic circumcision in Ontario===
|accessdate=2025-09-24
}}</ref>
===Third-party payment is not 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" />
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 in Manitoba,<ref name="dm2024">{{REFweb
|url=https://doctorsmanitoba.ca/managing-your-practice/remuneration/billing-fees/surgery/neonatal-circumcision
|title=Neonatal Circumcision
|publisher=Doctors Manitoba
|date=2024-07-16
|accessdate=2024-11-26
}}</ref> and this is also true throughout Canada.<ref name="allan2024">{{REFbook
|last=Allan
|first=
|init=JA
|author-link=Jonathan A. Allan
|year=2024
|title=Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin
|url=https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Uncut
|chapter=Chapter 2: Circumcision Indecision
|pages=88-9
|location=Regina
|publisher=University of Regina Press
|ISBN= 978-1779400307
|accessdate=2024-10-06
}}</ref> Only "medically indicated" circumcisions (which are very rare) are covered.<ref name="dm2024" />
===The incidence of circumcision varies widely by region===
The incidence of non-therapeutic child circumcision Labrador and Newfoundland is reported to be close to zero while Saskatchewan had an incidence of circumcision in 2000 and 2001 of 27.6 percent. The Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons said in 2002 that was much too high and should be reduced substantially. The Registrar, Dr. Dennis Kimble, said, "they [doctors] aren't required to carry out a procedure simply because parents want it done."<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Sask. college wants circumcision rates reduced
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/medicalpost03-18-02/
|last=Driver
|first=Deana
|coauthors=
|publisher=Medical Post
|website=
|date=2002-03-19
|accessdate=2021-07-22
|quote=
}}</ref>
===Factors pushing the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision down===