The Federal government promises to make the sequestration as painful as possible, but it has spent $1.5 million, so far, for a very special study.
It is of burning urgency to discover why there is more obesity among lesbians than among heterosexual women. It seems that 75% of lesbians are overweight, compared to %50 of heterosexual women. Brigham and Women’s Hospital will receive about $778,000 per year through 2016 to solve this mystery.
Pharmer suggests that governance of this study might fall within the purview of Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign.