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 subjects should be matched to plural verbs and vice-versa. Plural subjects usually have an '-s' or '-es' added on to the end of the word, while plural verbs drop the '-s' if they have one. Likewise, singular subjects don't have an '-s,' while singular verbs do.