If you see this ad on television...

...either ignore it, or better yet, point out to anyone in the room with you that it is a grossly misleading distortion of reality. The woman (Shona Holmes, a real person) asserts that she had a "brain tumor." That is true in the sense that the word "tumor" means "growth" - just as it's correct to say that a pregnant woman has a "tumor" in her uterus.

She did not have brain cancer. What she had was a benign Rathke's cleft cyst - a pituitary malformation that can cause distressing symptoms, but which is slowly progressive, if at all, and is typically treated on an elective basis.

Health care reform is a complex issue which needs to be addressed by rational adults. Grossly misleading propaganda like this exacerbates the problem.