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.
And another handful of nouns might seem to be singular in nature but take a plural form and always use a plural verb: My pants are torn. (Nowadays you will sometimes see this word as a singular pant [meaning one pair of pants] especially in clothing ads, but most writers would regard that as an affectation.)