Another company is blaming Obamacare for layoffs.

Medical technology company, Smith & Nephew, announced Thursday that it would be letting go of almost 100 workers at its plants in Tennessee and Massachusetts. The company, which makes orthopedic reconstruction products, is blaming 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices in President Obama’s health care law for the layoffs, according to Fox13 News.

“The nearly $30 billion tax on medical devices that took effect Jan. 1, 2013, has impacted a number of companies across the U.S.,� the company said in a statement to Fox13 News.

Medical companies lobbied to get the tax, which is levied on medical devices implanted by professionals, repealed, according to Reuters. The tax is expected to raise $29 billion in government revenue through 2022.

Joe Metzger, the company’s senior vice president of corporate communications, told the Memphis Business Journal that the firm is “not immune from this added expense burden.”

Smith & Nephew, which is based in London and has a global reach, employs “more than 11,000 [people] in 90 countries,” according to the Washington Times.

The company is not the first to blame Obamacare for layoffs and other cuts in spending.

In November, The Huffington Post reported that a Georgia man who identified himself as a small business owner said “he fired some employees and cut hours for others” because of the president’s reelection and his

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