He also kept repeating that businesses with more than 50 employees should provide health insurance, ignoring that she had stated she did NOT have 50 employees. ("Just under 50" was what she said.) So in addition to not answering her question, he didn't even address her situation. And he assumed that other hair salons all do provide health insurance, with no evidence to support that supposition.
Bernie is a nice man, but he's unfortunately also a fool.