HEALTH PLANS: Group Health strike--ahh the irony

Here's the AP report on the fact that the workers at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, the nation's most famous staff model HMO, (and no I have heard of Kaiser but I'm being a smartass here) are on strike because they are being asked to pay a greater share of their health care costs. Given that labor is about 70% of system costs there's something circular going on here, but I won't investigate it for fear that smoke will start coming out of my ears.