Neal K. Shah left a $250 million hedge fund to fix a system that failed his own family. After caring for his grandfather through dementia and his wife through a multi-year cancer battle, he saw firsthand what 63 million family caregivers already know: the care system in America is completely broken.

In this conversation with Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver, Neal explains why one person doesn’t get dementia, the whole family gets the diagnosis. Why care workers doing the hardest jobs in America are paid the least. Why families feel like they’re doing something wrong when the system is what’s broken. And why 63 million unpaid caregivers deserve to be recognized as America’s largest healthcare workforce.

Neal is the founder of CareYaya, author of “Insured to Death,” and the creator of Counterforce Health, a free AI tool helping patients fight insurance denials with a 70%+ win rate.

May 15, 2026 – You’re invited to 7.18 minutes of podcast below.

 

Watch the full podcast here:    • Disrupting Care: How Neal Shah Is Revoluti…  

Learn more about CareYaya: https://www.careyaya.org

Fight insurance denials for free: https://www.counterforcehealth.org

Neal’s book: https://www.insuredtodeath.org 0:00

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Introduction 0:49 “One person doesn’t get dementia. The family gets the diagnosis.”

1:51 Why the care system is completely broken

3:43 Care workers are the lowest paid in America

4:23 From obsession to remission

5:33 63 million caregivers are America’s hidden healthcare workforce

6:13 Why caregivers deserve to get paid MORE

 

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Attribution:

Neal Shah, Johns Hopkins and NIH-funded researcher

CEO of CareYaya

 

Posted by:

Susan Troyer, MS, BA