Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday morning did not provide a direct answer when she was asked if she wanted President Joe Biden to continue his campaign for president.

The California Democrat was pressed on the issue on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said she and other Democrats would support whatever Biden chooses to do.

“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi said.

.@SpeakerPelosi asked about Biden's candidacy:

"I want him to do whatever he decides to do. And that's the way it is. Whatever he decides we go with." pic.twitter.com/HqaRGtv2dP

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“We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short,” she added.

Pelosi said Biden has the “overwhelming support of the caucus,” although she noted that “it’s not for me to say” since she no longer leads House Democrats.

“But he’s beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision,” she said.

MSNBC’s Willie Geist countered, “He has said he has made the decision. He has said firmly this week he is going to run. Do you want him to run?”

“I want him to do whatever he decides to do,” Pelosi responded. “And that’s the way it is. Whatever he decides, we go with.”

Pelosi then shifted gears, saying Biden is “orchestrating” this week’s NATO conference “magnificently.”

The former speaker said she told her fellow Democrats to refrain from expressing their opinions about Biden’s candidacy until after this week.

“I’ve said, everyone, let’s just hold off, whatever you’re thinking either tell somebody privately, but you don’t have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week,” Pelosi said.

Biden’s campaign is facing a crisis among Democrats since his dismal debate performance last month against former President Donald Trump.

Democrats are currently divided on Biden, and many have publicly expressed concerns that the president may not be up to the task of serving another four years or even campaigning for the next four months.

Pelosi’s unenthusiastic remarks on Biden’s candidacy Wednesday come as other top Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have declared their solid support for the president.

Biden has made it clear he has no intention of dropping out.

“I’m firmly committed to staying in this race,” Biden wrote in a letter to Congress on Monday.

One Senate Democrat is warning that Biden is likely to lose in November.

“Donald Trump is on track, I think, to win this election — and maybe win it by a landslide — and take with him the Senate and the House,” Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) said on CNN.

According to an exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal, an analysis of billions of Medicare records showed private insurers connected to the federal government’s $450 billion-a-year Medicare Advantage program issued “hundreds of thousands of questionable diagnoses that triggered extra taxpayer-funded payments from 2018 to 2021.”

The Journal noted that the program currently covers more than half of the 67 million seniors and disabled people on Medicare. It explained that insurers can add their own diagnoses in addition to the ones doctors submit for their patients.

“Medicare gave insurers that option so they could catch conditions that doctors neglected to record,” the Journal stated, adding, “The Journal’s analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for which patients received no treatment, or that contradicted their doctors’ views. The insurers make new diagnoses after reviewing medical charts, sometimes using artificial intelligence, and sending nurses to visit patients in their homes.”

“They pay doctors for access to patient records, and reward patients who agree to home visits with gift cards and other financial benefits,” the Journal asserted.

Between 2018 and 2021, Medicare compensated insurers roughly $50 billion for diagnoses the insurers had added.

“The government paid all Medicare Advantage insurers more than $700 million from 2019 to 2021 for diabetic cataracts. Most of the diagnoses were added by insurers,” the Journal reported. Over 66,000 Medicare Advantage patients were diagnosed with diabetic cataracts despite the fact they had previously received cataract surgery.

“It’s anatomically impossible,” Dr. Hogan Knox, an eye specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told the Journal. “Once a lens is removed, the cataract never comes back.”

UnitedHealth spokesman Matthew Wiggin responded to the Journal’s report by saying its analysis was “inaccurate and biased.” He stated that Medicare Advantage “provides better health outcomes and more affordable healthcare for millions of seniors” than traditional Medicare. A spokesman for Humana echoed that the Journal’s analysis of treatment rates “is flawed and misleading.”

However, the Journal claimed that more than a dozen experts said the news outlet’s methodology was accurate.