With incomes down and insurance premiums up, more Americans are qualifying to take medical and dental deductions on Schedule A of their individual tax returns.

Each night before lying down to sleep in the cab of his semi, David Jesse straps a blood pressure cuff on his arm. The reading goes straight to his HealthPAL, a cell-phone-sized transmitter.

Some small-business advocates criticized President Barack Obama's proposed health-care overhaul as imposing stiffer requirements on employers to provide insurance for workers while not doing enough to lower costs.

An ounce of prevention may be worth a pound of cure, but when it comes to heart disease, chances are your insurance won't cover a trip to a dietician, a gym membership or other services that could help you reduce your risk factors.

The government is expanding a safety net to help the unemployed buy health insurance, but millions don't have access to the aid because of how Cobra was designed.

A proposal could extend the Cobra subsidy until June 2010.

More uninsured people are turning to friends - or strangers - to get coverage.

Doctors' office and urgent-care clinic extra fees come from hospitals owning physician practices and urgent care centers, and the charges are catching patients off guard.

Health insurance and health care are two of the most complicated and heated topics in politics today. In terms of taxes, however, the rules governing health-related deductions are vast but easy to follow.

Make sure you're not leaving any health insurance money behind as the end of 2009 nears.