Saturday is the day that nearly 24 million customers can start purchasing health plans on healthcare.gov and the state-run Obamacare exchanges.

Higher prices and uncertainty await many of those shoppers.

Average premiums are expected to more than double. The directors who manage marketplace enrollment in states including Maryland, California, Pennsylvania, and Idaho told me and my colleague Julie Appleby that people are wondering how they’ll scrape together hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars more next year to pay for these plans. Some people are considering plans with five-figure deductibles, like one Virginia Beach, Virginia, family facing a $20,000 deductible to keep their monthly premiums near $70.

“They might look cheap premium-wise, but the coverage itself is going to end up

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