Memorial Day weekend saw the release of a new survey on the quality of health care being given to military veterans. The results were not good.

Sixty-two percent of those surveyed thought wounded soldiers weren't receiving high quality care in military and VA hospitals and rehabilitation facilities.

Psychological services also got poor ratings, with 65 percent saying that soldiers suffering from mental health problems as a result of their experiences in Iraq weren't getting good treatment.

In each of these areas, people with relatives with a history of military service, a group that made up 57 percent of those surveyed, gave lower ratings to the quality of care.

Thus, the more they know, the more critical people are of the care offered to military veterans.

Ironically, the VA closely resembles the single-payer, government-run system many mainstream Democrats say they support.

Recent scandals aside, one would think that the federal government would have every incentive to offer the very best care to veterans. Nonetheless, concerns abound about the quality of care offered by the VA. Hopefully, Americans take a close look at problems within the VA before they ask the government to get even more involved in providing their own care.