Try as you like, you can't make Pelosi's words come out as "don't support universal healthcare". She never said that or anything like it. If you want to dismiss what she said, and just say what you think, that's your right. Everybody has the right to be wrong.
Is your issue that Pelosi doesn't support putting single payer in the 2018 platform? OK. That would be true. She says she's made no decisions about the 2020 platform.
Q: Do you feel like the move for Democrats now is to make single payer a plank in the 2018 platform?
Leader Pelosi. No, I don’t. I was carrying around single payer signs probably before you were born. So, you know, I understand that aspiration. But when we passed our bill, while we didn’t get public option, which if I were jamming the bill, as I’m accused of doing, we would’ve had, we won it in the House, we couldn’t get it in the Senate, we mitigated for many of the provisions that were there.
So I say to people, if you want that, do it in your States. States are laboratories. It can work out. It is the least expensive, least administrative way to go about this, but the comfort level with a broader base of the American people is not there yet. It doesn’t mean it couldn’t be. States are a good place to start.
But I’m not here today to write the Democratic platform for 3‑1/2 years from now. But I thank you for your question, as I say, as one who was in the streets with single payer over 30 years ago.