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.
Look up lop, lopper, or loppers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word lopper can be used in the singular or the plural, with precisely the same meaning. The plural form, most common in speech but less so in print, is a plurale tantum, and seems to be on the model of a pair of scissors.