 So the cost of diet food. So here's where we get into the weeds because again, you can imagine people coming up with all kinds of things that they can they can say well my doctor approves this and you can imagine the back and forth that has happened between You know taxpayers and the IRS. So what the first one diet food this gets into that whole thing with should obesity for example be a disease because if he qualified as a disease maybe you can write off the food that you buy right which would be a huge expense or of a write-off which again I don't think should really be something that's dependent on the tax code to be determining the classification of a disease personally cosmetic surgery unless it was necessary to improve a deformity related to a congenital abnormality and injury from an accident or trauma or a disfiguring disease so again this is another one that gets kind of confusing because you know sometimes you know you can argue as to whether or not something is is necessary care or or not whether it be cosmetic or or not kind of things and again there's a lot of kind of gray area it seems to me and in in that space as well life insurance or income protection policies so life insurance is different than medical insurance then we have the Medicare tax on your wages and tips or the Medicare tax paid as part of the self employment tax or household employment taxes so when we think about our normal our normal payroll taxes the money that that's taken out of our W2 wages we have federal income tax we have social security and Medicare and you could argue couldn't say why well Medicare is something that I'm going to get when I get when I reached the age limit to be qualifying for Medicare and I'm basically paying for it now so I should get the deduction for Medicare but no because that's some weird thing where it's like you're paying into the social program and so on and and again it gets kind of messy so nursing care for a healthy baby but you may be able to take a credit for the amount you paid see the instructions for form 2441 illegal operations or drugs so obviously if you're if you're getting your drugs like illegally or something like that like like from Canada or some other place you know you would think that that might not be deductible obviously illegal drugs are generally not going to be deductible you would think right so important drugs not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the FDA so imported drugs these include foreign made versions of U.S. approved drugs manufactured without FDA approval which means they're cheaper oftentimes because they don't have the FDA approval but of course can't deduct them and that is non prescription medicines other than insulin including nicotine gum and certain nicotine patches so travel your doctor told you to take for rest or a change so this is one that I gave as an example that you can see would commonly come up with you can convince any doctor you know I need a vacation to reduce my stress and it's going to be a health benefit well you can get approval for that but obviously that's one that the argument has been pretty well drawn out and the IRS is basically one you know that argument but again if you get created if you start thinking about it you can come up with all kinds of questions about medical expenses and so on and and I'm sure you could find many interesting cases about the deductibility of medical expenses so funeral burial or cremation costs so that is past medical expenses because the medical expenses had clearly failed at that point in time so tip so if you were age 65 or older but not entitled to social security benefits you can include premiums you voluntarily paid for Medicare Part A coverage so line one medical and dental expenses enter the total of your medical and dental expenses after you reduce these expenses by any payments received from insurance or other sources you can see reimbursements later if the advanced payments of the premium tax credit were made or you think you may be eligible to claim a premium tax credit fill out form 8962 before filling out schedule a line one