More on Moore's health care plan

Richard Moore's plan to insure children would cost $120 million.

The state treasurer unveiled his plan Thursday to get more uninsured children on the Health Choice and Medicaid health care plans through incentives to hospitals and schools.

According to the Associated Press, the Carolina Cares for Children plan is mostly carrot with little stick. There would be no punishment for failing to include a child's insurance policy number on a state tax form, for example.

Moore also proposed expanding access to the State Children's Health Insurance Program to up to three times the federal poverty level, or $61,950 for a family of four. The limit is currently twice the poverty level.

The expansion is one reason he targeted President Bush in a recent online petition.

Bush has criticized expansion, saying children from higher income families are likely to have access to private insurance, the Charlotte Observer reports.