HAAHAA, Oh the irony of it all!

[perlguy]

The continuing saga of my prescription insurance woes......

So, I have GHP and am fighting with getting what has been prescribed to me insted of their definition of "a single dose"...

GHP is "A Coventry Health Care Plan".

That sounded really nice, so I decided to look up the work "coventry".

Here is what I found:


Thesaurus Entry:
1 entry found for coventry.
Entry: exclusion
Function: noun
Definition: expulsion
Synonyms: ban, bar, blackball, blockade, boycott, Coventry, cut, debarment, debarring, ding, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, forbiddance, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, occlusion, omission, ostracism, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, proscription, refusal, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto
Antonyms: inclusion
Concept: exclusion



Dictionary Entry:
Cov·en·try Audio pronunciation of "coventry" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kvn-tr)
n.

A state of ostracism or exile: “It's not that smoke-filled rooms are back; smokers huddle in Coventry these days” (Flora Lewis).


\Cov"en*try\ (k?v"en-tr?), n. A town in the county of Warwick, England.

To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct.

[Wheezie]

this sounds so frustrating! i'm glad you found some humour in it. that's what keeps us sane.