dodoherty
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Self-employed health insurance

My wife and I are both self-employed filing married joint return.  We bought health insurance through the marketplace and meet the requirements to claim a health insurance deduction.  I entered the amount we paid, $2971, in the Schedule C expenses under Other Common Business Expenses->Insurance Payments->Health Insurance Premiums.   On line 17 of our Schedule 1, there is a much higher amount, $7699.  This is the same amount which also appears under Less Common Business Situations->Self Employed Health Insurance.  When I click Update for this entry is displays the message "We have deducted from your income $2971 of allowable self-employed health insurance attributed to your schedule C".    Can anyone tell me what is going on here?   We don't know where this $7699 is coming from and whether we are entitled to this deduction.