thank you director yant. nice to meet everyone. >> welcome. i do think he did a great job of explaining the balance billing matters that are still unresolved at a federal level certainly for our membership, it is not an issue that has come up too often. at least we will look back several times to see if any of this is going on. it only affects the p.p.o. plan to get their emergency bills paid and things like that. if there's any questions, we can take those now as well. >> commissioner scott: director yant, i don't have a question on the balance billing, i have a question on the r.f.p. i wanted to raise my hand earlier, but you rolled right past it. i apologize. >> president follansbee: let me speak here. thank you vice president canning for stepping in when i went off the internet. i couldn't call in and i got disconnect. -- disconnected. we don't have the hand raising sign. the board members would have to speak up. >> commissioner scott: this is randy scott. >> president follansbee: we have that. i'm sitting next to director yant in her home

brazil's president is being taken to court over his handling of the corona virus pandemic monica yantreports from rio de janeiro. these nurses may not have been able to prevent covert 19 from claiming so many lives in brazil but they're stopping the traffic in rio de janeiro to let people know why they're losing the fight and even some of their own 500 frontline health workers have died and 170000 have been infected and they blame the government. that's why he joined a coalition of trade unions representing 1000000 health care professionals to take president also nat'l to the international criminal court they accuse him of genocide and crimes against humanity for downplaying the virus and ignoring their rights to basic safety measures you know my. health care workers have to find their own means to get tested that's absurd if we don't know where sick will be spreading the disease to all those who are treating including prisoners indigenous people brazil is facing the largest health care crisis in its history unemployment is soaring and the president is that odds with the supreme court

we remember the controversy over convalescent plasma where he was buhl yant about the effects and then a to walk that back. how would we know if the approval process was more political than scientific? would we be able to tell? >> yeah. i think the way to tell, joshua, is to really demand transbarnsy around the data. by the way, that's note unusual for ask for data to be available for scientists and health professionals to review, and just to give viewers some context, we already have at least three large manufacturers that are in phase three trials with several of them ready to wrap up by the end of october, so you have to -- this begs the question what on earth is the urgency and what would you need to do in advance of that end of october date of reyou view in order to do this? and it's hard to believe it's not mill. so i think it's the data and asking for that data to be made available prior or at the time of that emergency use authorization that dr. hahn mentioned. i think it has to be clearly laid out for accountability on dr. hahn, because as you mentioned, she's lost some of tha

well monica yant a cab joins us now live from rio de janiero monica how is the health system now it was already overwhelmed how is it holding up now. well in the main cities the health system is is holding off well now they've decreased the number of deaths in the big cities but it's writing throughout the country and we're already talking about the possibility of having 200000 deaths by october so numbers are growing but in big cities like rio de janeiro the numbers are in some regions of the country they're dropping already and monica how of people now hearing president also nara i mean he called this a little food then he called it himself. exactly and maybe that was one of the worst things that could have happened because by catching the groan of ours and being well. week after and saying that he used chloroquine which has there's no proof that it that this is a cure for for covert 19 he made it he downplayed it once more so people are saying ok the president got it a 3rd of his cabinet had it and they're doing fine so some people are even don't even believe that this is a pandemic