Like this study from The Commonwealth Fund does.
Between 1997–98 and 2002–03, amenable mortality fell by an average of 16 percent in all countries except the U.S., where the decline was only 4 percent. In 1997–98, the U.S. ranked 15th out of the 19 countries on this measure—ahead of only Finland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Ireland—with a rate of 114.7 deaths per 100,000 people. By 2002–03, the U.S. fell to last place, with 109.7 per 100,000. In the leading countries, mortality rates per 100,000 people were 64.8 in France, 71.2 in Japan, and 71.3 in Australia.
You can read the whole thing at the above link, but out of 19 nations, it rates France as #1 and the US as last in the whole group, behind countries like Greece and Portugal.
But, oops, way down in the fine print you’ll see that this study doesn’t include most cancers (pdf). Why would they do something as blatantly dishonest as that, since cancers kill a large number of people around the world? Because the US leads the world in diagnosis and treatment of cancers, by a rather large margin I might add.
Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly puts up the graph and holds his nose up high. Too bad he can’t (or refuses) read the fine print.