''The election is over and President Obama won," Scott said. "I'm responsible for the families of Florida ... If I can get to yes, I want to get to yes."

That doesn't necessarily mean he'll end up at "yes" — Scott, like other high-profile Republican governors, has been outspoken about what he sees as a law with excessive federal regulations.

But even entertaining the idea of a state role in Florida's exchange is a sharp change in tone for the governor whose state led the legal challenge that ended up at the Supreme Court earlier this year.