Business as usual in healthcare is broken and we've got to do something different. Zeigt, dass das Patentsystem in vielen Bereichen seit langem kaputt ist. Shows that the system has been badly broken in many areas for a long time.
Mumps is a plural noun but treated as a singular noun.
Plural form subjects with a singular meaning take a singular verb. (e.g. news, measles, mumps, physics, etc. Plural form subjects with singular or plural meaning take a singular or plural verb, depending on meaning. (e.g. politics, economics, etc.) In this example, politics is a single topic; therefore, the sentence has a singular verb.