"Enrollment in HDHPs reached 47 percent of the commercially insured, pre-Medicare population in 2018, representing a 3.3-percentage-point increase from 2017 ... according to a quarterly survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).... The findings appeared contrary to a recent survey of large employers, which offer the largest share of HDHPs. [One] annual survey ... found the share of employers expecting to offer only HDHPs in 2019 was 30 percent among the 170 companies surveyed, compared with 39 percent in 2018 -- the first decline in seven years. Similarly, [a second] survey found enrollment in HDHPs dipped to 28 percent of covered workers in 2017 from 29 percent in 2016."  MORE >>