" WOw - I wonder what the dollar value of a circumcision is these days."

In the 1970's, a series of studies persuaded most health-care practitioners that there is no medical indication for circumcision. Those studies moved British Columbia in 1984 to remove infant circumcision from its list of eligible procedures under its medicare plan. Quebec and Alberta followed suit in 1987, and Ontario last October. Most clinics and hospitals in those four provinces now charge between $80 and $135 for an infant circumcision.