Hawaii is getting $14 million from the federal government to implement an insurance exchange program meant to help individuals and small businesses find affordable health care online, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday. 

Exchanges are a key component of the Obama administration’s national health care law. The idea is that individuals and small businesses will be able to come together to get better prices and more robust coverage, much as larger corporations can.

Federal rules say that exchanges will become operational in January 2014. Read the full story from Civil Beat.