Gross State Product for 2017

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its Gross State Product (GSP) data for 2017 on May 11, 2017.

Usgovernmentspending.com has updated its individual state GSPs for 2016 and projected nominal and real GSP through 2023 for each state using the projected national GDP numbers from Table 10.1 in the Historical Tables for the Federal FY2019 Budget and the historical GDP data series from the BEA as a baseline.

As before we have projected individual state GSPs out to 2023 by applying a factor to reflect each state's deviation from the national growth rate. (E.g. In 2014 the national real GDP expanded by 2.4 percent. But North Dakota grew by 6.3 percent, a deviation of nearly 4 percent. The deviation is reduced by 40 percent for each year after 2014, making the assumption that each state will slowly revert to the national norm.)

Click here to view a complete list of US states and their 2017 GSP growth rates.

Medicare Part C Updated from 2018 Trustees Report

Usgovernmentspending.com has updated its estimate of Medicare Part C, the Medicare Advantage program using data in the Medicare Trustees Report of 2017 that was released June 5, 2018. You can see the results here.

The Budget of the United States Government reports Medicare outlays as a single line item, subfunction 571 in Historical Table 3.2, but Usgovernmentspending.com shows a breakdown of the Medicare program into its constituent parts, as follows:

1. Part A: Hospital Insurance
2. Part B: Supplementary Medical Insurance
3. Part C: Medicare Advantage
4. Part D: SMI Drug Plan

These data are constructed from data in the Public Budget Database and Table IV.C2 in the Medicare Trustees Report 2018 which reports the payments made to private Medicare health plans and the projected payments in future years.

You can inspect the extracted data from Medicare Trustees Reports Table IV.C2 here. And see the blog entry that introduced the Medicare Part C breakout to usgovernmentspending.com here.

Here is a breakdown of Medicare budgeted outlays for 2020 before and after today's update.

Outlays in percent GDP	Part A	Part B	Part C	Part D	Total Medicare
FY2020 before update	0.91	0.78	1.00	0.37	3.00% GDP
FY2020 after update	0.88	0.75	1.05	0.37	3.00% GDP

The update indicates a 5 percent increase in Medicare Part C over the previous estimate in the Medicare Trustees Report in 2017.

Medicare/Social Security 2018 Trustee Reports Released

On June 5, 2018, the Center for Medicare Services released its annual Medicare Trustees Report, which projects Medicare spending out to 2092.  As in the past, the report shows that federal health-care programs will eat the budget.

UsGovernmentspending.com has updated its chart of the Medicare Outlook here based on data in the 2018 Medicare Trustees Report.  You can download the data and also view selected Medicare Trustee forecasts going back to 2005.

On June 5, 2018, the Social Security Administration released its annual OASDI Trustees Report, which projects Social Security spending out to 2090.  As in the past, the report shows that Social Security spending will max out at about 6 percent of GDP.

UsGovernmentspending.com has updated its chart of the Social Security Outlook here based on data in the 2018 OASDI Trustees Report.  You can download the data and also view selected OASDI Trustee forecasts going back to 1997.