The Service Employees International Union is fighting efforts by the state of Wisconsin to create tax credits for individual health insurance savings accounts. SEIU Wisconsin Political Director Robert Kraig says the union opposes them because they will seriously undermine good employer provided health insurance for workers.

[Robert Kraig 1]: "What they're designed to do is completely change the health insurance landscape in this country. In order to have the account be tax-deductible it has to connected to an insurance plan - either a family plan or an individual plan with a high deductible - $1,000 to $2,000. And so, your employer would have to provide that. And therefore it literally encourages the creation of very high deductible health insurance plans."

Congress has already created federal tax credits for these health savings accounts, now a seemingly organized campaign by conservatives is underway to do the same at the state level.

[Kraig 2]: "I think what they really are is they're an attempt to roll back the post World War Two compact that said a good job included employer-based health insurance."

Kraig says real health care reform that addresses the high costs and provides universal coverage for workers is what¹s really needed.