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THE PRESIDENT'S READING COPY RADIO SPEECH: HEALTH The White House Friday, November 3, 1972 Whenever people start talking about how exciting life would have been a century or two ago, a friend of mine likes to respond, "But what if you broke your leg?" He has a good point. Nothing has done more to improve the quality of life in recent decades than the progress of medical science. I believe the best way to continue this progress in the future is to build on the system that produced our progress in the past. We have done a lot of building in the last four years. We have increased Federal spending on health more than 50 percent, from $16.6 billion to $25. 5 billion. I proposed -- and the Congress enacted -- the most comprehensive program in history to train more doctors and nurses and dentists, to train them faster and more effectively, and to attract them to small towns and inner cities and other places where they are now in short supply. I