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Newmassdad- You're right in some areas and wrong in others. I am not aware of any medical school that admits people without a BA or BS. But I'm happy to stand corrected if you know of any. Although there are states where you can practice Law if you pass the bar but haven't graduated from law school, I am not aware of any law schools that accept students without an undergrad degree. And so forth.
So while there are many occupations (sales and sales management, some areas of finance such as trading operations, media/entertainment, etc. where you don't need a college degree to advance, it is progressively harder to get that first job in those occupations without the degree. Possible? absolutely.
RE: avoiding the screeners- It would be hard to get hired at GE or Procter & Gamble or Pepsico or Merck or Northwestern Mutual for a job which requires a degree (at least on paper) if you don't have one. Is it fair? No. Is it reality? Yes. You can be the world's greatest networker in the world, but companies that employ 50,000 people and upwards have processes in place-- not to discrminate against "diamonds in the rough" but to ensure consistency in standards and practices. And risk management for employment lawsuits.
Many consumer products companies have senior folks in the sales mangement ranks who were hired in the '70's. They have military experience and maybe a year or two of college. But the trainees they hire for management positions are college graduates, and even they concede that it would be too hard today to try and pick through a pile of HS grads and determine which ones are the slackers, which ones are the grade A blue chip hard workers with a lot of drive, and which ones are just the average Joes. So it's much more efficient to require a college degree... any degree.... just to help narrow the pool.
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