re: How dumb is it that you have to pay to park at a hospital?

UMC in Jackson has free parking in the employee lot and if you have an appointment or surgery they will validate your parking ticket so you can leave w\o paying. If they didn't charge for parking, all the employees would just park in the garages and there would be no where for the patients to park. It sucks but I am not sure there's any better way to do it.