The problem with this is that the Boomers are the only generation in history that has consumed more as they age. While your point may be dark to imply to sever the ties, they're also a generation with far more economic capital than Millennials, so they can likely handle the blows for a longer period of time than younger people, who would presumably only have being younger organisms as their sole advantage in that case. Anything regarding care would be worse because there is much less money to pay the absurd costs as is. Costs would be a killer as they already are for tens of thousands of Americans who don't even have insurance, but as this is a monetary situation, it's fair to say more money means more of a boat to float, even if the endgame is sinking into the sea regardless of the context.
I've mentioned and talked about the problems of a growing precariat class in posts before on GAF, and you could link the apathy and disengagement as part of it. The solution, however, is basically paramount to a revolution, a type of Occupy Wall Street to the entire cultural and political operating system. This is especially problematic as it is the Millennial generation that feels -- and has been implied implicitly -- that the system is "as is" and cannot change deeply; it all must be minor patches, not a new OS. Health care is a perfect battle ground to see this: we can be sensible and say it should be offered to citizens, but you have a political party that believes it's a commodity, and it's these conflicting positions that seem like the ones rooted to the core of the earth in the eyes of many people.
You really can't "fight" the ideas in this climate, but kind of hope those that hold them either die off or never get power ever, and the latter is what we're seeing unfold in our binary "pendulum" inspired system where things sway back and forth. It makes ideas like progress and sustainable policies seem like breezes in the wind, for they're fleeting and can be uprooted in a span of months. How many of us, just 12 months ago, would have imagined the most incompetent group of people representing a first world nation not only of this century, but perhaps of the last 100 years? America has this fungus happening right now.
In order for people to be engaged, you need to make people care, and this culture never really focuses on making people care about anything other than consumptions and fads. People who care and have compassion are flukes who likely found it not through the carved path society tells them to live, for example. The path carved out today is one of isolationism and "fuck you got mine" mentalities, where you can see a sea of humanity but everyone considers themselves bubbled away from literally everybody else. In fact, people likely care about issues because they see suffering in their own lives, not because we have a fucking pyramid of unaccountable views, ideals, and values that are a source of most of our misery in life. One cares about health care because they see family members normalize avoidance of doctors or stress over bills. Linking this back to my earlier post, many people are numb because the suffering and depth of problems is also overwhelming. Where do you begin to handle America's biggest looming issues? You can't even get some people to admit the reality of problems...
It's probably a much better "coping mechanism" to make darkly ironic Twitter memes than actually staring at the tornado of misery that we're caught in. What's the alternative other than being caught right back in the problem of parties, unmovable pillars, and the looseness of progress?
