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The "market price" of anything is set by.... the market.
Are you referring to the cost of the development and manufacture of specific drugs to the pharmacuetical company?
Who said that they are selling everything "at cost?" No one on this thread has said that. No company does that. Strawman?
The closest thing that has been successful is the Clinton Foundations negotiations with companies to offer a "supermarket" pricing structure - selling a huge number of HIV/AIDS drug doses at a much lower markup.
There are companies who will not spend the millions to research to develop a cure for HIV/AIDS, because they know that should they succeed the world would demand that they provide it free or next to free. There is a non-profit that, rather than simply shaking their finger at pharmacuetical companies, 'ooing after them' and demanding that they become non-profits, has offered to purchase enough doses at the pharma rate in order to recoup their costs, so that companies will do the research.
While that doesn't satisfy people who want to see those companies suffer financially and fold, it will actually help get to a cure faster.
If you had to choose between those two goals, which would it be - because there is no way it can be both.