I reprint in full and fully endorse (with one caveat) an appeal from the website Classically Liberal. The caveat: CLS states the belief that every reader can afford a $25 donation. I'm not confident that's true but I hope you give what is possible without taking away from your own welfare and that of your family. (If it is less than $25, then do not feel guilty.) If you cannot donate at all, please send a message of concern and support to Vince through the ISIL site.

Here is your chance to do something good. Vince Miller, the founder and president of the International Society for Individual Liberty has been hospitalized with pneumonia. He was very weak when taken in and his oxygen levels were so low, due to his lungs being congested with fluid, that he was at high risk of heart failure.

Vince has been a tireless worker in the trenches to further social and economic freedom. He has done so with little desire for recognition or reward. Vince, who will be 70 in a few months, was not able to get insurance due to his age. So the hospital bills will come out of his meager pocket.Hospital care has been excellent and the hospital has not hassled him regarding payments in any way. But some of his friends would like to take up a collection to help with these bills. Because his condition was so serious he is still in the hospital and has been since last Thursday. We know the quality of care that he has received doesn’t come cheap. So far we don’t have a figure from the hospital but we anticipate it will be substantial.

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