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You can claim your child's medical insurance as Medical expenses.
You can claim all medical and dental bills, prescription drugs and health insurance premiums paid out-of-pocket as Medical Expenses in Schedule A - Itemized Deductions
For tax year 2019, Medical Expenses are subject to the 7.5% rule and you can only claim the excess over 7.5% of your Adjusted Gross Income.
Please note that Itemized Deductions will only "help" when they exceed your standard deduction.
For 2019, standard deductions are:
For a taxpayer under 65, not claimed as a dependent
You can enter Medical expenses by following these steps:
Thank you, do I enter it in Dependant gross long term care premium?
It would not be considered a long-term care premium if it was simply medical insurance. Enter it in the Medical Insurance Premiums section or at the end as a medical expense where you can type your own description.
You should be sure that the insurance premiums that you pay are not being paid with pre-tax money from your paychecks. If it is pre-tax money, then you cannot also deduct the cost as a medical expense. If you are not sure, you should contact your employer to verify.
As Annette alluded to, it is almost positively pre-tax through your employer. Assuming that is the case, you don't enter it anywhere on your tax return.
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