It is the smart move to advise your kid to play in the NBA or MLB, etc as evidenced by Tyler Hansbrough's dad, an orthopedist, who is all for Tyler going to the NBA instead of med school. The individual receiving the money is not the issue. It's the choice we make as a country that it is more important for Brittany Spears to get over $700,000.00 per day even when she's been out of work for over a year that is the problem. We have decided to spend our money going to sporting events and concerts. We don't balk at spending $250.00 a seat for a Yankee - Red Sox game (and those are cheap), or a Madonna concert. But ask someone to pay that for medical care and you'd better cover your ears. Read some history, the Romans were obsessed with entertainment in the decades before the Dark Ages came. It can happen to us just as well, and it seems like it is.