IDK what the wait time is about on the green bar.

I do. That average wait time is from 2022 (pandemic anyone?). It also varied drastically depending on your exact location.

The “Study” can be found here - https://consumerchoicecenter.org/healthcare-time-saved-index/

If you click the link to the Access the Database you’ll be taken to a Google Doc with sources. The first one up is the United States and if you go the “Average Wait Times” tab you can see that their source for the US was this article: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/hurry-up-and-wait-long-wait-times-cripple-access-to-care-health-outcomes-and-patient-experience/

It gets even worse when you check the next tab over regardarding Wait Times for Elective Surgery, there you find the data is from 2016! https://fee.org/articles/america-outperforms-canada-in-surgery-wait-times-and-its-not-even-close/

Oh, and “Non-Emergency” and “Elective” are NOT the same thing.