AFAIK there's nothing you can do if you're dead in the respawn, which is a separate bug. But if you die and aren't able to hit the revive button, I've found hitting ESC once, then trying generally allows me to revive.

Our group has noticed this as well. Our workaround is to wait until the debuff falls off everyone before we restart the fight. It seems to work most of the time. That said last night during Soa one of our tanks mis-jumped, and was lucky enough to fall onto a different platform we ran by. We weren't able to rez him even though he was clearly there, and up to that point in the run no one had died.

I am primarily a PVEer, but I have no patience for dailies either. So I log on for raid nights, the weekly raid gives me ~16k for 2-3 hours. I get that once per week. During that time I die 2-3 times, and I have to repair, there goes most of that money. If I get lucky in the raid and get a new piece of equipment (no guarantees, because of RNG), I may end up needing to remod into some critted orange gear too. Too bad I just spent all my money on repairs. Keep in mind that I have no patience for dailies and only do my OPS, which give less money for time investment than PVP matches. You're guaranteed at least a second source of currency/drops (warzone comms, win or lose), while I might get lucky and get a piece of equipment, or I might not. I'm also making less money off of my OP, despite the time investment being about the same. So we're in the same boat. I could do my dailies, you could too, but man, those are just a pain.